pichar
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- pixar (nonstandard)
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /piˈʃa(ʁ)/ [piˈʃa(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /piˈʃa(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /piˈʃa(ʁ)/ [piˈʃa(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /piˈʃa(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /piˈʃaɾ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /piˈt͡ʃaɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /piˈʃa.ɾi/
- Hyphenation: pi‧char
Verb
pichar (first-person singular present picho, first-person singular preterite pichei, past participle pichado)
- (transitive) to pitch (to cover or smear with pitch)
- (transitive) to scribble, to write (walls, building facades, etc.)
- (ambitransitive, colloquial, figuratively) to badmouth
Conjugation
Conjugation of pichar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “pichar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “pichar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “pichar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “pichar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “pichar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /piˈt͡ʃaɾ/ [piˈt͡ʃaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: pi‧char
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
- pichear
Verb
pichar (first-person singular present picho, first-person singular preterite piché, past participle pichado)
- (Latin America, baseball) to pitch
- (colloquial, Puerto Rico) to ignore
Conjugation
Conjugation of pichar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | pichar | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
gerund | pichando | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | pichado | pichada | |||||
plural | pichados | pichadas | |||||
singular | plural | ||||||
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
indicative | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | picho | pichastú pichásvos |
picha | pichamos | picháis | pichan | |
imperfect | pichaba | pichabas | pichaba | pichábamos | pichabais | pichaban | |
preterite | piché | pichaste | pichó | pichamos | pichasteis | picharon | |
future | picharé | picharás | pichará | picharemos | picharéis | picharán | |
conditional | picharía | picharías | picharía | picharíamos | picharíais | picharían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | piche | pichestú pichésvos2 |
piche | pichemos | pichéis | pichen | |
imperfect (ra) |
pichara | picharas | pichara | picháramos | picharais | picharan | |
imperfect (se) |
pichase | pichases | pichase | pichásemos | pichaseis | pichasen | |
future1 | pichare | pichares | pichare | picháremos | pichareis | picharen | |
imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
affirmative | pichatú pichávos |
piche | pichemos | pichad | pichen | ||
negative | no piches | no piche | no pichemos | no pichéis | no pichen |
Etymology 2
Verb
pichar (first-person singular present picho, first-person singular preterite piché, past participle pichado)
Conjugation
Conjugation of pichar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | pichar | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
gerund | pichando | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | pichado | pichada | |||||
plural | pichados | pichadas | |||||
singular | plural | ||||||
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
indicative | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | picho | pichastú pichásvos |
picha | pichamos | picháis | pichan | |
imperfect | pichaba | pichabas | pichaba | pichábamos | pichabais | pichaban | |
preterite | piché | pichaste | pichó | pichamos | pichasteis | picharon | |
future | picharé | picharás | pichará | picharemos | picharéis | picharán | |
conditional | picharía | picharías | picharía | picharíamos | picharíais | picharían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | piche | pichestú pichésvos2 |
piche | pichemos | pichéis | pichen | |
imperfect (ra) |
pichara | picharas | pichara | picháramos | picharais | picharan | |
imperfect (se) |
pichase | pichases | pichase | pichásemos | pichaseis | pichasen | |
future1 | pichare | pichares | pichare | picháremos | pichareis | picharen | |
imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
affirmative | pichatú pichávos |
piche | pichemos | pichad | pichen | ||
negative | no piches | no piche | no pichemos | no pichéis | no pichen |
Further reading
- “pichar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024